2016 Pow Calendar
2016 Alaska Calendar
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Back by popular demand, and perhaps a little pressure from friends and family, the 2015 Alaska calendar is here just in time for the holiday season: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/839787?__r=82423 . Enjoy Alaska […]
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Just finished the final touches on this year’s AK POW calendar: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/839788?__r=82423. If you’re looking for a unique calendar that celebrates the desire to be sliding on snow 365 days […]
Commercial Fishing
This season was my 8th aboard the F/V Icy Bay commercial fishing in Bristol Bay for sockeye salmon. It was another good year for us and was filled with […]
Commercial Fishing
A series of my Alaskan commercial fishing photography will be up from June 15th-September 30th, 2014 on the French island of Hoedic in the region of Brittany as a […]
Commercial Ice Fishing for King Crab in Nome, AK…
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Enjoying a sunset fire at Couch Beach after a day of skiing, with friends and beers. I recently returned from a one-month trip in Japan and whenever people asked […]
CSM Photos' Blog 
Awesome, Chris. (Ah, the photogenic Douglas Breeze-In parking lot!)
It has its charms.
I’m curious what kind of planning went into the shot — did you figure out the astronomy of where and when you could see the rising blue moon and the dipper? And how long was your exposure? Beautiful results!
A bit of planning went into the shot, but as with anything a little luck came into play. I had been watching the moon rise for the last few days and with an extended clear spell I decided to take advantage of the timeliness of the blue moon on New Year’s Eve. The shot is actually 5 photos digitally stitched together to form the panorama. I could have shot the whole scene in one photograph, but the resulting crop would have been too small to reproduce at the quality/size I was trying to achieve. I’ve seen many iterations of the downtown moon shot done over the years by Art Sutch, Mark Kelley, etc… I wanted to do something a little different. The Big Dipper just happened to be in the right location to balance the image, otherwise I would have gone for a much tighter photo of town and mountains. A little serendipity can go a long ways. I hope you had a good New Year’s and that you’re enjoying the new job.